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Is having fame a bad thing?
What about fame without a name?
Audrey Munson had it all — fame, looks, love, and money — and yet she died forgotten by the world, elderly, alone, and penniless. She was locked away for more than half her life, not even able to view the dozens of bronze and marble statues depicting her at the height of her career, that even today dot Manhattan from the Upper West Side to the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge to the West Side Highway to Columbus Circle, according to The Daily Beast.
Psalm 135:13
יְ֭הוָה Yahweh שִׁמְךָ֣ Your name [endures] לְעוֹלָ֑ם forever יְ֝הוָ֗ה Yahweh זִכְרְךָ֥ Your fame לְדֹר־ throughout וָדֹֽר׃ all generations
Psalm 102:12
וְאַתָּ֣ה But You יְ֭הוָה Yahweh לְעוֹלָ֣ם forever תֵּשֵׁ֑ב shall endure וְ֝זִכְרְךָ֗ and the remembrance of Your [name] לְדֹ֣ר to וָדֹֽר׃ all generations
The name and reputation - fame (remembrance of his name) is the prime importance to God, and Christ.
Matthew 6:9; John 17:3-6; Psalm 83:18
Exodus 3:13-15; Exodus 5:22-6:3; Exodus 9:16; Exodus 15:1-3; Exodus 20:7; Exodus 23:20-23; Numbers 14:15, 16; Deuteronomy 28:10; Deuteronomy 28:58, 59; Joshua 6:27; Joshua 7:8, 9; Joshua 9:8-10
Is the name of God important to you, or is God nameless - his name and fame of little importance?
Audrey Munson died at the age of 104 on Feb. 20, 1996. She was buried in an unmarked grave in New Haven Cemetery in New Haven, N.Y. But on her 125th birthday, her family placed a simple tombstone on her grave.
What about fame without a name?
Audrey Munson had it all — fame, looks, love, and money — and yet she died forgotten by the world, elderly, alone, and penniless. She was locked away for more than half her life, not even able to view the dozens of bronze and marble statues depicting her at the height of her career, that even today dot Manhattan from the Upper West Side to the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge to the West Side Highway to Columbus Circle, according to The Daily Beast.
"The Wilkins case has ruined my life," Munson said afterwards, according to the Reading Times. "The public used to love and admire me. Now all I find everywhere is hate."
Shortly after the Wilkins' murder scandal, Munson's mental health faltered. She became paranoid, writing a letter to the U.S. government alleging she was being persecuted by Jews, per Vogue. In 1920, a "bent, broken, hollow-cheeked" Munson attempted to persuade a newspaper to run her own death notice, according to the Buffalo Courier. She was trying to start her life over under a new name, but the clerk recognized her, per "The Curse of Beauty." Two years later she tried to kill herself, per Vogue, and by 1926 she was living in "a miserable little clapboard cottage on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York," walking "listlessly around and around" wearing "clothes that any farm woman might wear," according to The Spokesman-Review.
When Munson turned 40, her mother had her committed to St. Lawrence State Hospital for the Insane in Ogdensburg, New York, where she spent the next 65 years, per the New England Historical Society. After her parents died, she was utterly alone until two of her nieces discovered her in the 1980s, per Rediscovering Audrey. Audrey Munson died at the state hospital in 1996, at age 104, according to the New England Historical Society. When she was only a child, her mother had taken her to a fortune teller who told Audrey she would "be beloved and famous. But when you think that happiness is yours, its Dead Sea fruit shall turn to ashes in your mouth," per The Daily Beast. These words haunted Audrey Munson for the rest of her life.
Fame Without a Name: The Tragic Story of America's First Super Model
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Shortly after the Wilkins' murder scandal, Munson's mental health faltered. She became paranoid, writing a letter to the U.S. government alleging she was being persecuted by Jews, per Vogue. In 1920, a "bent, broken, hollow-cheeked" Munson attempted to persuade a newspaper to run her own death notice, according to the Buffalo Courier. She was trying to start her life over under a new name, but the clerk recognized her, per "The Curse of Beauty." Two years later she tried to kill herself, per Vogue, and by 1926 she was living in "a miserable little clapboard cottage on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York," walking "listlessly around and around" wearing "clothes that any farm woman might wear," according to The Spokesman-Review.
When Munson turned 40, her mother had her committed to St. Lawrence State Hospital for the Insane in Ogdensburg, New York, where she spent the next 65 years, per the New England Historical Society. After her parents died, she was utterly alone until two of her nieces discovered her in the 1980s, per Rediscovering Audrey. Audrey Munson died at the state hospital in 1996, at age 104, according to the New England Historical Society. When she was only a child, her mother had taken her to a fortune teller who told Audrey she would "be beloved and famous. But when you think that happiness is yours, its Dead Sea fruit shall turn to ashes in your mouth," per The Daily Beast. These words haunted Audrey Munson for the rest of her life.
Fame Without a Name: The Tragic Story of America's First Super Model
...
Psalm 135:13
יְ֭הוָה Yahweh שִׁמְךָ֣ Your name [endures] לְעוֹלָ֑ם forever יְ֝הוָ֗ה Yahweh זִכְרְךָ֥ Your fame לְדֹר־ throughout וָדֹֽר׃ all generations
Psalm 102:12
וְאַתָּ֣ה But You יְ֭הוָה Yahweh לְעוֹלָ֣ם forever תֵּשֵׁ֑ב shall endure וְ֝זִכְרְךָ֗ and the remembrance of Your [name] לְדֹ֣ר to וָדֹֽר׃ all generations
The name and reputation - fame (remembrance of his name) is the prime importance to God, and Christ.
Matthew 6:9; John 17:3-6; Psalm 83:18
Exodus 3:13-15; Exodus 5:22-6:3; Exodus 9:16; Exodus 15:1-3; Exodus 20:7; Exodus 23:20-23; Numbers 14:15, 16; Deuteronomy 28:10; Deuteronomy 28:58, 59; Joshua 6:27; Joshua 7:8, 9; Joshua 9:8-10
Is the name of God important to you, or is God nameless - his name and fame of little importance?
Audrey Munson died at the age of 104 on Feb. 20, 1996. She was buried in an unmarked grave in New Haven Cemetery in New Haven, N.Y. But on her 125th birthday, her family placed a simple tombstone on her grave.
